Net ecosystem carbon exchange and the greenhouse gas balance of tidal marshes along an estuarine salinity gradient

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 2014, Pages 163-189

  Weston, Nathaniel B ^a   Neubauer, Scott C ^b,c   Velinsky, David J ^d   Vile, Melanie A ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Carbon; Climate change; Greenhouse gas; Methane; Salt marsh; Salt water intrusion; Tidal freshwater marsh

Indexed keywords

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; ZIZANIA; ZIZANIA AQUATICA;

EID: 84904805203     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-014-9989-7     Document Type: Article

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